Norm Peterson

His window to get enrolled in a school is closing. If there's no word about a visit, my guess is no visit is forthcoming. Onto the next one.

Yvan is going to cut his teeth on a murderer's row of college basketball big men this season. He will be getting experience that he would not have been able to see at virtually any other option he had going the college route last spring. And he'll be a far better player for it next year. If he was only getting spot minutes, then a redshirt would have probably been preferable. But when you're the starter and getting 25 min/game, that experience will be invaluable down the road.

So, you're our special assistant to the head coach in charge of player development. What would you do to develop l'homme for next year? @basketballjones? @Dean Smith what say voux?

It could be worse. We could be South Carolina and Frank Martin could be our coach.

We could end up being the Quad 3 loss that knocks Rutgers off the bubble. That would be tragic. Go Huskers!

By virtue of his chronological age, he should be a senior in high school right now. He could reclassify to 2021 if he wanted. I have to remind myself of that from time to time while watching him. He is FAR from your normal college freshman. When Yvan hits at least 50% of his FG, we are 5-2. Remember how everyone was worried he'd be a fouling machine?

Put another way: If this 17-year-old had gone to prep school and was doing for Brewster Academy or IMG what he did to ATM Corpus Christi, which high major program would NOT be at his doorstep with an offer?

There's this 17-year-old kid I've had my eye on. He's built like a dude. Stands about 6'9 and probably close to 250#, I'd imagine. He's a foreign player, playing in his first year in the states, and last night, playing against a team full of D1 prospects, he grabbed 14 rebounds and put up 11 points. Pretty sure he's on Hoiberg's radar. I just hope we can nail down a commit before the big boys come in and ... Wait … I'm hearing he's already on the roster. Whew.

Oh, he did. And it was ugly.

According to ESPN's stats, Jack has 15 points and 9 assists in 29 minutes of play this season. That ain't bad.

Holy crap! I'm looking for a Faux Pelini "OMG WHAT WAS THE SCORE" angle and not finding one. Five assists in the first half? Of the game? While the outcome was still in doubt? Wowzer. Good for him.

The thing I don't like about your projected starting lineup (and I'm not saying your prediction is wrong -- it's more a comment on the condition of the roster) is that Teddy Allen is the only guy in that starting rotation who you'd currently have any reason to expect would be a solid shooter from long range. Maybe Banton is using his redshirt year to really become a perimeter threat and maybe Burke and Mack will improve their consistency. But that's not a lineup that forces opposing Ds to respect our perimeter shooting capability.

I feel your pain. We had a couple of casual sports fans who appeared to be out-of-towners (visiting family for the holidays?) sit in our section and just loudly chit-chatted the whole game about random sports stuff like that time their Kansas State Wildcat volleyball team came to town and beat Nebraska. The few times they seemed to notice the game was to make some anti-Husker comment ("that was a travel!"). I wanted to tell them that Gate 25 across the street has multiple TV screens and beer specials and would be a better environment for their "discussion" than within earshot of me. But, for some reason, I held my tongue.

How many times do you think we’ll see Dachon Burke go 1-13 in his career?

Nice 2nd half 3-point accuracy.

Yvan needs to realize he’s a very big man, and he can go up over people and into them to get his shot off rather than trying to get around them, under them, or falling away from them. Go up like you’re going to dunk, whether there’s anyone in your way or not. Let your shoulder width create space for you. Don’t try to find space by moving (falling?) away from the rim.

More important: How were they from the line?

I'm gonna suggest a scenario that I think is more than plausible that puts everyone involved in a better light. No one's being a diva; no one abandoned anyone or didn't try hard enough to re-recruit him. Etc. etc. So, you're a HS kid who's a 4-star-level recruit. And you suffer a bad knee injury in the off-season so you can't do the AAU summer circuit and your senior season is in jeopardy. It's a bad deal. Extremely disappointing. Extremely. Fortunately, you've already committed to a school ... but they have a new coach after the one you originally committed to got fired. Which sows a little bit of doubt in the back of your mind. You've never had a bad injury before, certainly not one that knocked you out of commission for almost a year and one that might be difficult to overcome. Not impossible to overcome, but certainly difficult. You have doubts - however unfounded those doubts might be - about whether you'll be able to return to the same level of ability that you had before. You worry that you'll lose some of your quickness. You worry that you won't regain some of that leaping ability. You worry that you won't be able to live up to the hype and hope that the fans of the program you committed to probably expect of you. You worry that the new coach who runs the program you committed to has the same doubts about your ability to recover from your injury that you have. You don't want to come across like you're "needy" but you'd like some reassurance. Some affirmation. Something. Just give me a sign that you believe in me the way the old coach who I committed to would have done. Recruit me like I'm not committed. So that I know that you think I will still be the player I hoped that I was going to be before I got hurt. Send me a sign. Something. Anything. Oh. Word is you're recruiting a juco kid who seems to maybe, possibly fill the role I had imagined for myself. OK. Well then. Now what do I do? Switch gears. Now you're that new coach. You're an alpha male and not in the habit of trying to put yourself in the brain of a talented high school basketball player who's already committed to your program and who has seemed very firmly committed ever since you first met with him. You've got a program to run. You have hit some bumps in the road and have some internal issues to deal with. You're looking at your roster and trying to figure out your needs for the immediate future. We need some rebounding. Gotta find a kid who can get some boards. Man, oh man, need some shooting. Gotta land a shooter. Kid with ties to the state and some high-level D1 experience comes on your radar. OK, so him and Donovan. That should address a couple of those acute needs, right? Right. So who's the bad guy in this situation? Nobody. Would have preferred Donovan handle things with a bit more tact and discretion after the fact. But if you are that talented recruit who got hurt and felt doubt about how complete your recovery was going to be and was worried that the new coach wasn't as committed to you as you wanted him to be and, therefore, decided to decommit, you would want everyone who was following you to know that your decision was justified. That it wasn't just based on emotion or silly crap like that. A person in that situation might feel the need to sell the decision so that others would accept it. Sometimes our sales pitches don't reach the mark. A 19-year-old kid with no sales experience might have that problem.

Not exactly. Why do you suppose you didn't see anyone say anything about D'Andre Davis being a diva, as you call it? Hmmm?

At his best -- which I don't think we've seen yet in a Husker uni -- Jervay is definitely one of the best players on this team. At his best, he'll be hitting 40%+/- from 3-point range, can create his own shot, can dish to his teammates, and can play solid defense. It shouldn't be any surprise to anyone who has followed Nebraska basketball for a couple of decades that a juco player is experiencing an adjustment period transitioning to D-1 ball. Even Nate Johnson didn't really come into his own until he was a senior. Give Jervay time. We're not even 1/3 into the season yet.

Unfortunately, I'm beginning to reach the same conclusion. Makes me think perhaps we dodged a bullet.

The guy Donovan is retweeting is an asshole of the first order.

Mostly agree. You forgot Kevin. He's gonna do it to 'em.

With apologies to Bugeaters, but Norm is up and and awake and out the door for the day, and I have a song to share for this one by the best cover band I've ever seen:

Did I mention that Kai's moves are insane?